National and international scholars, activists, and interested members of the public convened at Duke University for an international conference on Marketing Muslim Women, April 10–12, 2008. Th e conference aimed to provide a forum to explore how gender is constructed and contested in Islamic tradition and how certain images circulate both within and beyond Muslim cultures; to bring Islamic studies scholars into conversation with those in other fi elds whose work may not focus on Islam or the Muslim world but who share research interests in gender, culture, and power; and to appeal to faculty, students, and community members and off er them opportunities for diff erent levels and styles of engagement with these issues. According to conference coordinator miriam cooke, the three-day gathering brought together “participants from the U.S., Canada, Kuwait, Jordan, Japan, and England [to] examine the cultural, political, and economic forces that manufacture Muslim women’s images for consumption and how women both produce and consume these images.” Organized by cooke and Ellen McLarney at Duke, Banu Gokariksel at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, and the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, the conference was cosponsored by multiple organizations at Duke and UNC–CH. Th e broad scope of the event was shaped by four keynote speakers: publisher Tayyibah Taylor spoke on “Azizah: Media from the Muslimah Perspective,” author Nawal El Saadawi on “Muslim Women in the Mar-